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Cubans watch US President Barack Obama talking on TV about the reestablishment of full diplomatic ties with Cuba, in Havana on July 1, 2015. President Barack Obama announced that the United States and Cuba will re-establish full diplomatic relations, severed 54 years ago in the angry heat of the Cold War. The US president and Cuban state television simultaneously announced the landmark agreement, aimed at easing decades of enmity across the narrow Straits of Florida. Under the deal, embassies in Washington and Havana will be reopened as soon as July 20, in what Obama described as a “historic step forward,” and a “new chapter” in US relations with Latin America. AFP PHOTO / YAMIL LAGE